Spike Milligan's funny acceptance speech for his lifetime achievement award at the British Comedy Awards 1994. He refers to the Prince of Wales as a grovelling bastard.
Spike got me in trouble. I was skiving off at work, hiding in a railway guards van reading one of his books. I was laughing so hard my boss found out where I was. No regrets..it was worth the bollicking I got. I'm 63 years old now and I still have that book. Spike will be with me until I die.
@@Do_not_assume They shared the same sense of humour. The then Prince Charles was a huge fan of Spikes, he would have laughed his socks off at Spikes comment and Spike new it. They were actually good friends.
"yes. but i didn't mean to. It was that, or stand around walking in weird patterns the Army like to call Marching.. and yes i did serve my time.. for a thousand crimes i never committed it seems"
"yes. but i didn't mean to. It was that, or stand around walking in weird patterns the Army like to call Marching.. and yes i did serve my time.. for a thousand crimes i never committed it seems" I made that up. but it seems like something Spike would say. :)
The great things he enjoyed were Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe et all bursting into his house and MAKING him cheer up. PTSD was an misunderstood condition. Brave Brave Man
@@chriswasniowski3149 Both very funny, although it's rowan atkinson. Humour is subjective. We all like different types of comedy. Benny Hill was slapstick full of double entendres whereas Milligan's humour was surreal. He is generally recognised as a comic god and one of the most influential comedians ever. Without Spike Milligan there would be no Monty Python. He changed comedy forever.
I saw spike in a small theatre here in Perth Australia He walked out on stage sat on a chair and had everybody laughing for 2 hours It was unbelievable what a genius of comedy
I think the reason this also works so well, is because prior to delivering that line, he’s acting slightly doddery - he admitted afterwards he’d already had 2 bottles in- he’s paying sort’ve scant attention to the proceedings, so there’s a kind of sympathy for his age pervading - and then he delivers this absolute razor sharp line, with perfect timing and tone, that you are shocked into joy by both the irreverence of what he says and the fact that he’s still got it. Absolute classic!
Absolutely, absolutely Smoog, and the main difference was that laughter by those comedians who they themselves had done their time 'dying' on stage and more so than us know how hard, brave, quick thinking to come up with a line that has not been rehearsed and canned laughter used - cause not just for them to laugh BUT laugh with PURE JOY.I truly hope as with your comment three years ago and mine in 2023 that for many years people will comment as I have done to you, thus showing how good he was.
@@AdrianColley Rik Mayall isn’t in this clip. Jonathan Ross, Ben Elton, Ian Hislop, Michael Barrymore, Rory Bremner, Mel Smith and a couple more but no Rik Mayall.
"I'm not going to thank anybody, because I did it all on my own!" Surely the greatest moment in all awards ceremonies. An entire industry overwhelmed with laughter and love. RIP Spike.
kisbie As I said - he was joking. He wasn't trying to belittle anybody and there was certainly no malice. You need to understand the wider context before opening your mouth in future.
It’s funny how Jonathan gave up the speech from the folder, cut it short and just encouraged one final round of applause. I think he knew that Spike’s humour was irrepressible.
I was going to comment on that. Jonathan's a total professional and knew reading the rest of the speech was only going to take the shine off that first joke so rather let it rest in the room with them for a bit longer.
I met him at a book-signing, I was nervous, he made fun of my name; he was very physically feeble, except in his eyes. I have been an atheist since I was about 9 years old, but I cried after meeting Spike like a believer would after encountering a Saint.
This has to be one of the greatest moments at an award show, and still his brand of humour could reduce an audience to hysterical laughter, is an example of how much a comical genius Spike Milligan was, to cut in with such a bold retort as this towards the future King of England would make me laugh any time i see it, You were an absolute legend Spike, R.I.P to a great man
I can watch this again and again. That nanosecond of shock before they all erupt is priceless. A true genius who died the same day as my dad. I can hear them laughing now.
Ahhhh, I miss you Spike! Absolute legend, my sides are still hurting years later! Only Spike could call a future king a grovelling bastard and bring the house down!🤣🤣🤣
Spike Milligan was one of comedies masters who knew how to say things with no fears, we need people like him back in our lives! I've got tears literally running down my face through laughing.. Thank you Spike and God rest your beautiful soul x
The reason it's funny is because everyone is supposed to respect the royal family and hold them in high esteem, and yet here we see someone completely turning that on it's head and mocking one of the most well-respected figureheads of the British Empire.
I love how just as everybody is starting to get over it they realize how funny it was again and go back into hysterics. It's an impossible level of comedy. It's transcendental.
I remember watching this live. It was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen and still is. Spike Milligan was the funniest person who ever lived and nobody will ever come close to him.
@welcome welcome you're one sick puppy. Bitch if you're lucky to be around at mid life I bet comedy will be outright banned as will all free thought and speech. Or else it'll be a bunch of sour cancel culture bastards like you that got hurt feelings.
@@TallSilentGuy You don't get trees on boats! It may actually be more nuanced, as shipwreck cartoons often feature a person sitting under a single palm tree on an unsuitably small desert island.
It's in Irish, which is: "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite" . The church would not let it be engraved in English, so as a compromise it was translated into Irish
Watched this time and again and it always reduces me to tears of laughter.. Spike was truly a natural genius and desperately funny .. RIP Spike .. you left this world a happier place 😅
Only Spike could have gotten away with this bless him and he will always be a national treasure that made us all laugh out loud back in the day. He will never ever be forgotten.
Sad but his type of comedy and humour has been consigned to the ‘warning this may cause offence to some listeners’ or ‘this episode was recorded in 1968 when guidelines were different and so may contain language that some listeners or viewers may find offensive’. Woke o’clock for modern comedy or die at the hands of the mental left, or the nazi right. You can’t win ☺️
"Im not going to thank anyone coz I did it all on my own" How Fuckin Comic genius are those words, had me in tears as a teenager during the late 70,s early 80,s Gone but never forgotten RIP Spike
And every line out of his mouth was a brilliant, spontaneous, unscripted rib-tickler! What a wit! What a nut! A knighthood would not be good enough. Lord Spike!!!
It is exactly that type of comments i hate about youtube. Writing random shit that pops up in your head and trying to pass it along as something clever.
40 seconds of uncontrollable laughter by everyone and every single time I watch this, it has the same effect. Just 1 simple line did that. True master at work. I have to watch his works. So many great great comics that I love admire this guy. Robin Williams, Craig Ferguson, The entire Monty Pythons, Dylan Moran, Sean Lock and many many more all loves Spike and credits him as a major influence in their comedy.
This is true, but he had Prince Charles, God Bless Him, laughing in the aisles! The Prince was convulsing with laughter! What else could he do? The Prince was a true gentleman, and he played the game!
I did calligraphy for many years. One of the pieces I did was a poem written by Spike called "The Children of Aberfan". It shows a totally different side of Spike Milligan. Brings me to tears each time I read it
indeed... have seen this many times...not for a year or two now and im wiping away tears of laughter as i type ... fucking outstanding ! we all have to go sometime, spike went a little too soon but even his epitaph is a giggle :)
Spike’s war stories are soooo funny and yet you feel the sadness and pain at the same time. Anyone who hasn’t read them needs to to really know what this chap was all about.
I'm only 26, but over the years i have watched a lot of Spikes tv stuff and even listened to the goon show with my grandfather (who is a huge Spike fan)while we were driving somewhere and it's some of the funniest stuff i have seen and heard in my life. We will never get comedy of that calibre ever again. Old comedy is the best comedy.
Utter genius, my favourite comedian ever, all the trauma he saw & suffered himself, more often than not made his humour even more astounding, dogged by serious bouts of dark depression, locking himself away in his room for weeks at a time, I think his headstone says "I told you I was ill", he really was a complete one off, never see the likes of him again
Man when English comedy ruled they were the funniest of times and im an Aussie who can't get enough of this comedy great, and see what a awesome standing ovation given out of respect.
I was 14 years old when I first read "Hitler. My Part In His Downfall." back in the late 1980s, we were studying WW2 at school at the time and it gave me an incredible edge over other kids my age. Spike's memoirs offered such an incredible insight into the real lives of those that gave us our freedoms and asked so little return.
He was so genuine and funny. Love him to pieces. I've laughed long and hard at this man's comedy - to the poin where I needed to catch my breath! May he RIP.
'Grovelling bastard...' Right there is the old relationship of the court jester battering the king over the head with his pig's bladder; remember, thou art only mortal.... Everyone who wields power in this day and age should have their own jester at their elbow to keep them humble!
It´s hard to catch because of the laughter but it just might have been ".......these are a series of cliches, you idiot." If I´m wrong, I stand corrected. In any case, pure genius. Thank you!
Saw him do a one-man show at St David's Hall in Cardiff a few years ago, sat on the side above he came out. For some reason the sound was crap and afterwards they were giving refunds. I declined. I was just happy to be in the same room as my comic hero. Afterwards he signed some of his books and I got to shake his hand. Have to stop typing know as I'm filling up. Legend.
Spike said afterwards that by that time of the evening he had finished two bottles of wine as, having not worked on TV in ten years, he wasn't expecting anything more than a night out and a free meal.
People throw the word iconic around a lot but not only was Spike an absolute comedy icon, the true genius of modern comedy, but calling the heir to the throne 'that little grovelling bastard' has to be the most iconic roast moment of all time. The sheer audacity is what cracked a room full of his peers up.
The next time you watch any awards ceremony, and someone cracks a joke , time the absolute eye watering hysterical laughter. If it gets anywhere near 45 seconds , let me know.
One of the very few genuine comedy geniuses the world has ever produced. Spike was the originator, the master of the absurd, the word Genius is not sufficient to honour his Brilliance, or to do him justice.
I remember reading one of his war books going to school on the train. I was on my own, and couldn't stop giggling hysterically. People were throwing me sideways glances, I think they thought I was mad. Reading them all again, 50 years later - and still laughing like a hyena. I loved this man ❤
so - I caught my dad reading them Sunday morning, giggling like mad, then, remember pissing off my wife as I used to read them on the bog - what are you doing? she would shout out, ha ha
I was exactly the same I read Rommel gunner who and Hitler my part in his downfall,in my teens in the early 80s and pissing myself laughing at the humour!
No one else could have gotten away with it like Spike Milligan, a true comedy legend. R.I.P Spike Milligan you left us with comedy that will keep us laughing forever.
Fortunately, Charles loved the Goons (even made reference to Harry Secombe in his speech when was formally invested as Prince of Wales, since Harry was Welsh). Spike sent a telegram the next day the following question: "I suppose a knighthood is out of the question?" (Charles supposedly offered as a reply "Keep groveling") ... Spike later got his KBE.
Spike got me in trouble, was 7 or so and loved his kids books and he had a new one out and was signing them at the bookstore in town so Mum took me out of school to go meet him. It was wonderful and very nice to me as I was very shy. School was very upset with me for missing half the afternoon, but it was worth it and I still have those signed books (now in ziplock bags)
The man, the myth, the legend - Spike Milligan. The funniest bit of all about that comment is that Spike and the Prince of Wales were very close friends for many years. Often imitated, but never, ever duplicated. 2:40 LOL
I've always loved Spike, me my brother and my late Dad always watched him. Never failed to make us laugh. I still think the Pakistani Dalek sketch is pure magic. Might not be PC today, But I always crease up 😂
I have watched this a lot. It is a pity we do not have more Spike Milligans about today. Genius is said a lot now but looking back to Spike it is the only word that is fitting. Genius...............................
I once had the good fortune to see Spike live on stage in London in the 1980's. During the performance Spike remarked that he had gone to stay in a country house hotel in England and on the wall in one of the bedrooms was one of the historical blue plaques stating that so and so had been born Here. He said, I wondered how that was possible ? and he gave a demonstration as to where on the wall the plaque was. He then concluded, giggling in his unique way.........His mum must have bent over and fired him out !! 🤗 Jesus LOVES you Spike.......but I'm his favourite 😊!
A true comedy genius. Whether on stage, TV or reading his books. He is from an age when comics were truly funny. To the point of making your belly hurt. And also to have the balls to say what he thought. Brilliant! RIP Spike! 👏
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan 16 April 1918. Ahmednagar, British India. Yes, he created The Goon Show. But he also wrote a few books and poetry. Including, a book about his tenure in WWII. Like so many comical genius' , he suffered from bi-polar disorder. But lived to the ripe old age of 83.{27-2-02}
I'm re-reading his war memoirs now (3rd tie). They are still hilarious, serious, sad and touching all at the same time. His friendship with Edgington was a thick vein through his novels, a beautiful relationship. He never missed his annual Battery D war reunions. A great, great man.
"I got off the train at Bexhill on Sea, which was difficult, the train didn't stop there." RIP Spike Milligan and thank you for your genius.
As promised , he had the inscription , ''I TOLD YOU I WAS ILL'', ON HIS HEADSTONE, But, I think the idiot church removed it?
😂
legend
Spike got me in trouble. I was skiving off at work, hiding in a railway guards van reading one of his books. I was laughing so hard my boss found out where I was. No regrets..it was worth the bollicking I got. I'm 63 years old now and I still have that book. Spike will be with me until I die.
I cried with laughter listening to him read those books.
Bollocking. Not bollicking.
@@judeirwin2222 I bet you're a right laugh at a party.....
@@nelsonhibbert5267 It would be funnier if he had written ball -licking.😂😊
That rather depends on whether tongues were involved. Railway chaps are jolly fun like that. 😂
I heard that, after this, Spike wrote to Charles and said "I guess a knighthood is out of the question" to which Charles replied "keep grovelling"
@@Do_not_assume That's why it's funny.
@@Do_not_assume They shared the same sense of humour. The then Prince Charles was a huge fan of Spikes, he would have laughed his socks off at Spikes comment and Spike new it. They were actually good friends.
@@Do_not_assumeyou totally misunderstood the joke, the point and the fact they were friends..
Touché. Nice touch by Prince Charles. He would have killed himself with laughter if he'd seen it! Cheers, Spike! 🙏😂🙏😂
@@Do_not_assume You do know that they where friends?
This man was a genius. He took the pain & suffering he experienced during WW2 and turned that around to bring humour to literally millions of people.
I've read his books over and over many times, they got me through a spate of bad depression so thankyou Spike.
A TRULY GREAT BRITAIN 💯
🆘🇬🇧🙏💪🎬🤩😍REST WITH THE BEST 😭🙏💪
EASY TO SEE WHY LONDON LOVE'S YOU ✌️🧐💪🤣☺️
"yes. but i didn't mean to. It was that, or stand around walking in weird patterns the Army like to call Marching.. and yes i did serve my time.. for a thousand crimes i never committed it seems"
"yes. but i didn't mean to. It was that, or stand around walking in weird patterns the Army like to call Marching.. and yes i did serve my time.. for a thousand crimes i never committed it seems"
I made that up. but it seems like something Spike would say. :)
The great things he enjoyed were Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe et all bursting into his house and MAKING him cheer up. PTSD was an misunderstood condition. Brave Brave Man
Probably the only person in the world to call the future king a "grovelling bastard," and get away with it.🤣
I say it everyday as do many others..get a fuckin grip..the monarchy died when Elizabeth 11 died..that's reality.
Charles III was and is a huge fan of the Goons, and was a close friend of Spike's. It was a joke among friends
Wasn’t wrong was he
Charles is a grovelling bastard. Am I another?
The funniest person who ever lived and a truly wonderful human being. I miss Spike Milligan so much.
yes about as funny as toothache
@@chriswasniowski3149 I'm just curious. Who do you find funny?
@@finfunforever benny hill johnny english aka rowan aykonson
@@chriswasniowski3149 Both very funny, although it's rowan atkinson. Humour is subjective. We all like different types of comedy. Benny Hill was slapstick full of double entendres whereas Milligan's humour was surreal. He is generally recognised as a comic god and one of the most influential comedians ever. Without Spike Milligan there would be no Monty Python. He changed comedy forever.
@@finfunforever terry thomas alec guiness
I saw spike in a small theatre here in Perth Australia He walked out on stage sat on a chair and had everybody laughing for 2 hours It was unbelievable what a genius of comedy
I think the reason this also works so well, is because prior to delivering that line, he’s acting slightly doddery - he admitted afterwards he’d already had 2 bottles in- he’s paying sort’ve scant attention to the proceedings, so there’s a kind of sympathy for his age pervading - and then he delivers this absolute razor sharp line, with perfect timing and tone, that you are shocked into joy by both the irreverence of what he says and the fact that he’s still got it. Absolute classic!
2 bottles of wine ?
@@brody5211 Liebfraumilch is what he said in a later interview!
"and then he delivers this absolute razor sharp line"..... could not agree with you more.
He had a brilliant mind
saw the opportunity and took it even when plastered. Sharp is definitely the right word.
Just about the only person who can get away with that line, a true legend of comedy never forgotten.
well said and very true.
You know someone's funny when they can cause a room filled with the best comedians in Britain to howls of laughter with a single quip.
Absolutely, absolutely Smoog, and the main difference was that laughter by those comedians who they themselves had done their time 'dying' on stage and more so than us know how hard, brave, quick thinking to come up with a line that has not been rehearsed and canned laughter used - cause not just for them to laugh BUT laugh with PURE JOY.I truly hope as with your comment three years ago and mine in 2023 that for many years people will comment as I have done to you, thus showing how good he was.
You could see the frank admiration in Rik Mayall's eyes.
@@AdrianColley Rik Mayall isn’t in this clip.
Jonathan Ross, Ben Elton, Ian Hislop, Michael Barrymore, Rory Bremner, Mel Smith and a couple more but no Rik Mayall.
@@lewisgreen5081 I could have sworn that was him at 2:49.
@@AdrianColley Nah that ain't Rik.
"I'm not going to thank anybody, because I did it all on my own!" Surely the greatest moment in all awards ceremonies. An entire industry overwhelmed with laughter and love. RIP Spike.
+kisbie It's a joke you idiot, you can tell he is actually emotional because he is crying! *smh*
kisbie Not sure what you mean?
+Jane Goodnut Just going to help you look for that plot you lost.
kisbie As I said - he was joking. He wasn't trying to belittle anybody and there was certainly no malice. You need to understand the wider context before opening your mouth in future.
+Jane Goodnut Oh you are trolling. I see you are having a 'pop' at everyone.
Someone has a very lonely life.
It’s funny how Jonathan gave up the speech from the folder, cut it short and just encouraged one final round of applause. I think he knew that Spike’s humour was irrepressible.
I was going to comment on that. Jonathan's a total professional and knew reading the rest of the speech was only going to take the shine off that first joke so rather let it rest in the room with them for a bit longer.
@@leodaly2310 Not to mention likely knew that he'd never finish given Spike's personality.
Fearing King grovelling Little Bastard's wrath one day
That's how you react to a future King's loving letter. Spike was a genius who it was a pleasure to meet shortly before he passed. RIP Spike.
I met him at a book-signing, I was nervous, he made fun of my name; he was very physically feeble, except in his eyes. I have been an atheist since I was about 9 years old, but I cried after meeting Spike like a believer would after encountering a Saint.
This has to be one of the greatest moments at an award show, and still his brand of humour could reduce an audience to hysterical laughter, is an example of how much a comical genius Spike Milligan was, to cut in with such a bold retort as this towards the future King of England would make me laugh any time i see it, You were an absolute legend Spike, R.I.P to a great man
The single funniest line ever uttered!
I can watch this again and again. That nanosecond of shock before they all erupt is priceless. A true genius who died the same day as my dad. I can hear them laughing now.
The funniest man ever to walk the planet, a true comedy genius, RIP Spike.
I think you're forgetting the comic work of the inestimable Timmy Mallett
@@mikeboosh8776 🤣
Timmy who ?
Benny Hill?
Told you he was ill
Spike lee.
Greatest Acceptance Speech of All Time. Will never be beaten.
This will character you talk of, I seen him beaten last night!
Simply fav fav fab fab
He did a lot better than Will Smith.
You took the words out of my mouth,fantastic.
Just brilliant
Imagine being able to make a room full of comedians erupt into laughter with just four words. Genius.
The love pouring out from everyone in that room for this beautiful man is so heartwarming it echoes down the years. We are blessed to have known him.
Ahhhh, I miss you Spike! Absolute legend, my sides are still hurting years later! Only Spike could call a future king a grovelling bastard and bring the house down!🤣🤣🤣
The master, could watch this every day
@@twmlloyd5257 Actual King now. 🤣
@@paulnewshamAnd still a groveling bastard ask Klaus his WEF mate.
@@paulnewshambut still a groveling bastard! lol 😂
Spike Milligan was one of comedies masters who knew how to say things with no fears, we need people like him back in our lives!
I've got tears literally running down my face through laughing.. Thank you Spike and God rest your beautiful soul x
I'm here...
Remember watching this live. One of the most epic, jaw-dropping moments in the history of British TV.
The reason it's funny is because everyone is supposed to respect the royal family and hold them in high esteem, and yet here we see someone completely turning that on it's head and mocking one of the most well-respected figureheads of the British Empire.
Yes Spike would never become a 'Grooms of the Stool' like many of his obsequious
contemporaries who display it bucket loadat the RVP.
‘I know people who have been crippled in the wake of my humour’ What a funny funny man , we love ya Spike
I love how just as everybody is starting to get over it they realize how funny it was again and go back into hysterics. It's an impossible level of comedy. It's transcendental.
I remember watching this live. It was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen and still is. Spike Milligan was the funniest person who ever lived and nobody will ever come close to him.
@welcome welcome What a horrible thing to say.
@welcome welcome talking out your ring
@@Wahey Yes. A simple matter of poison character. But, ah well, people like that do help us appreciate those whom we like and love.
@welcome welcome you're one sick puppy. Bitch if you're lucky to be around at mid life I bet comedy will be outright banned as will all free thought and speech. Or else it'll be a bunch of sour cancel culture bastards like you that got hurt feelings.
@welcome welcome One of the saddest and most pathetic comments I've ever read on TH-cam. Shame on you.
'Best cure for seasickness...sit under a tree!' There will never be another Spike. Never forgotten, his humour lives on.
I don't get it.
@@TallSilentGuy You don't get trees on boats!
It may actually be more nuanced, as shipwreck cartoons often feature a person sitting under a single palm tree on an unsuitably small desert island.
@@TallSilentGuy I'm not surprised.
Even his tomb stone has the words ''I told you i was ill'...The man was, is, a legend. :)
It's in Irish, which is: "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite" . The church would not let it be engraved in English, so as a compromise it was translated into Irish
7Earthsky ye IN IRISH
@@Irish780 nobody cares about your dumb language
@@A-small-amount-of-peas you are an idiot
@I am special NPC yes
Could watch this a thousand times and would still be hilarious. RIP Spike - what a legend!
Watched this time and again and it always reduces me to tears of laughter.. Spike was truly a natural genius and desperately funny .. RIP Spike .. you left this world a happier place 😅
Only Spike could have gotten away with this bless him and he will always be a national treasure that made us all laugh out loud back in the day. He will never ever be forgotten.
Sad but his type of comedy and humour has been consigned to the ‘warning this may cause offence to some listeners’ or ‘this episode was recorded in 1968 when guidelines were different and so may contain language that some listeners or viewers may find offensive’.
Woke o’clock for modern comedy or die at the hands of the mental left, or the nazi right. You can’t win ☺️
Got away with what?
@@billblog5386 exactly, spoke the truth.
Yes because President Boris Johnson or President Liz Truss would be so much better than the Royals...
@@beaufighter245Spike and Charles were friends!
"Im not going to thank anyone coz I did it all on my own"
How Fuckin Comic genius are those words, had me in tears as a teenager during the late 70,s early 80,s
Gone but never forgotten RIP Spike
The funniest person that ever lived in my opinion. An absolute comedy genius
Great comment and the trolling speek police can crawl back up the anus they crept out of.Correct that
With that comment, he makes the audience laugh in hysterics for a full 45 seconds! That is the mark of a true comic genius!
And every line out of his mouth was a brilliant, spontaneous, unscripted rib-tickler! What a wit! What a nut! A knighthood would not be good enough. Lord Spike!!!
What is your name
Jesters can get away with a lot.
He says very few words in the whole thing and it's some of the funniest minutes on TH-cam.
It is exactly that type of comments i hate about youtube. Writing random shit that pops up in your head and trying to pass it along as something clever.
40 seconds of uncontrollable laughter by everyone and every single time I watch this, it has the same effect. Just 1 simple line did that. True master at work.
I have to watch his works. So many great great comics that I love admire this guy. Robin Williams, Craig Ferguson, The entire Monty Pythons, Dylan Moran, Sean Lock and many many more all loves Spike and credits him as a major influence in their comedy.
Most of modern comedy wouldn’t exist without this mad genius.
Comedy Genius was our Spike , A sandwich short of a picnic of course but that was his uniqueness
5 words and he had the entire room in tears of laughter. That's a rare gift he had.
This will never, ever be topped at an awards ceremony. Unbelievable timing and delivery from a truly great man.
errr Julian Clary & Ricky Gervais . I would beg to differ . However , this is bloody hilarious nonetheless
Never afraid to speak his mind, his comedy genius could never be shackled.
Also, by this time, he was so old he was untouchable. He could say what he liked about Prince Charles; what could the establishment do? Nothing.
This is true, but he had Prince Charles, God Bless Him, laughing in the aisles! The Prince was convulsing with laughter! What else could he do? The Prince was a true gentleman, and he played the game!
No one will ever come close.
Genius.
I hope your wrong, the thought of no more genuine, honest comic genius is depressing.
Meeting Spike at a book signing in Dublin many years ago was such a privilege. He shook my hand.
What a lovely memory Wayne, thanks for sharing.
The comics today don't come close to Spike, even at this age he'd wipe the floor with them.RIP A great man
People like him will never exist again, no one ever will be as loved or respected. I will never forget this.
It doesn't matter how many times I see this clip, it never gets any less funny!Miss you Spike!
Spike was a true superstar of British comedy. Rest in peace Spike you awesome person!
I did calligraphy for many years. One of the pieces I did was a poem written by Spike called "The Children of Aberfan". It shows a totally different side of Spike Milligan. Brings me to tears each time I read it
a standing ovation for a truly great comic genius.
Generally comics get less funny, Spike never lost it.
T0mat0S0up couldn't agree more
T0mat0S0up I can see a Tommy Cooper trick coming on ....OK HERE WE GO! SPIKE ...BOX...BOX...SPIKE.
neil phillips
Laughter and great affection.
Written on spikes gravestone "I told you I was ill" Brilliant!
I don’t think this will ever get old
indeed... have seen this many times...not for a year or two now and im wiping away tears of laughter as i type ... fucking outstanding !
we all have to go sometime, spike went a little too soon but even his epitaph is a giggle :)
My first hero: His 'Silly Verse For Kids' enchanted me when I was five years old and I've loved him ever since. Bless you, Spike!
There was only one SPIKE MILLIGAN. Total love.
Spike’s war stories are soooo funny and yet you feel the sadness and pain at the same time. Anyone who hasn’t read them needs to to really know what this chap was all about.
Every time I watch this I have tears of laughter genuinely coming from my eyes! Just a genius, the Prince Charles line is priceless 😆
The audience shots - so much comedy genius standing and giving him love !
I don't see Paul Merton in the crowd, but I hope he was there. In the 90s, he was working hard to be the next Spike Milligan.
I'm only 26, but over the years i have watched a lot of Spikes tv stuff and even listened to the goon show with my grandfather (who is a huge Spike fan)while we were driving somewhere and it's some of the funniest stuff i have seen and heard in my life. We will never get comedy of that calibre ever again. Old comedy is the best comedy.
@Sgt Pluck What about Derek and Clive?
@@acmarston A bloke came up to me the other day and said… “Hello”
@@FUNKINETIK Provocative f#%$#@.
@@FUNKINETIK Get this in the bollocks for a start!!
@@FUNKINETIK Bloody provocative..
Utter genius, my favourite comedian ever, all the trauma he saw & suffered himself, more often than not made his humour even more astounding, dogged by serious bouts of dark depression, locking himself away in his room for weeks at a time, I think his headstone says "I told you I was ill", he really was a complete one off, never see the likes of him again
His humour knew no boundaries whatsoever, and we loved him for it
Man when English comedy ruled they were the funniest of times and im an Aussie who can't get enough of this comedy great, and see what a awesome standing ovation given out of respect.
Spike had that room ROARING with laughter...Much loved, greatly missed.
So after seeing the comedy awards recently, it brought me straight back here. True comedy genius. even after all these years I cry with laughter.
I was 14 years old when I first read "Hitler. My Part In His Downfall." back in the late 1980s, we were studying WW2 at school at the time and it gave me an incredible edge over other kids my age. Spike's memoirs offered such an incredible insight into the real lives of those that gave us our freedoms and asked so little return.
He was so genuine and funny. Love him to pieces. I've laughed long and hard at this man's comedy - to the poin where I needed to catch my breath! May he RIP.
'Grovelling bastard...' Right there is the old relationship of the court jester battering the king over the head with his pig's bladder; remember, thou art only mortal.... Everyone who wields power in this day and age should have their own jester at their elbow to keep them humble!
Great comment.
we shouldn't have any so-called royalty
@@mizofan .I would substitute pigs bladder for lump hammer
Too deep for this lad on a Friday evening but I get the gist...
Never a truer word said.
I remember seeing this on TV and it had me crying with laughter. Awwwwwww Spike we miss you!! Respect to a lovely man.
Spike Milligan,mad as a bag of frogs but an absolute legend.
He wasn't mad, a depressed man maybe, but not mad... intelligent definitely!
@@susansherlock7474 mad as in Zany 😁
@@susansherlock7474 Possibly PTSD from WW2.......So funny but so poignant and sad too if you've read them.
Madder.
Yes, But he left great memories for his children, He was a great father.
The greatest acceptance speech of all time 😅
That man was priceless! Took me a little while to “get” his style, but now appreciate in buckets! RIP Mr M👍
That roar of laughter is just stunning.
Comedic genius. Razor sharp whit.
Brilliantly funny. " ...these are a series of cliches you know?"
It´s hard to catch because of the laughter but it just might have been ".......these are a series of cliches, you idiot." If I´m wrong, I stand corrected. In any case, pure genius. Thank you!
Wit, not whit.
Saw him do a one-man show at St David's Hall in Cardiff a few years ago, sat on the side above he came out. For some reason the sound was crap and afterwards they were giving refunds. I declined. I was just happy to be in the same room as my comic hero. Afterwards he signed some of his books and I got to shake his hand. Have to stop typing know as I'm filling up. Legend.
A comedian who can make a room full of comedians laugh is several cuts above.
Cracks me up every time I watch it..Pure comedy Genius..😂
2019 and still makes me laugh 😂
Me too, as does the Morecambe & Wise sketch with Andre “Preview” 😂
2022, still laughing!
@@francishall1803 can confirm
2023 here and God knows I need a laugh.
One of the funniest men of all time. Still laughing out loud in 2019.
2021 here, still laughing our asses off :-)
Spike said afterwards that by that time of the evening he had finished two bottles of wine as, having not worked on TV in ten years, he wasn't expecting anything more than a night out and a free meal.
People throw the word iconic around a lot but not only was Spike an absolute comedy icon, the true genius of modern comedy, but calling the heir to the throne 'that little grovelling bastard' has to be the most iconic roast moment of all time. The sheer audacity is what cracked a room full of his peers up.
The next time you watch any awards ceremony, and someone cracks a joke , time the absolute eye watering hysterical laughter. If it gets anywhere near 45 seconds , let me know.
More funnier then ever now. God save the grovelling bastard.
Precisely.
Immortal, he shall be forever known as.
Jamie, go back to school. Funnier. Not more funnier.
He grovels to the WEF.
Spike's punchline after the event seems even better, writing to Prince Charles as he was then, "I suppose a knighthood is out of the question?"
Absolute joy to watch. Miss the guy so much. RIP Spike👌
The giant, on whose shoulders everybody else stood.
No wonder he died.
@@stumbling He was ill. He did tell us.
We'll said Sir !
@@HappyCynic Brilliant, just brilliant.
Couldn't have put it better myself.An indisputable comic genius
Thanks for everything Spike. There'll never be another like you. And so many of the audience are no longer with us too.
This is a classic! I cry with laughter every time I see this.
One of the very few genuine comedy geniuses the world has ever produced. Spike was the originator, the master of the absurd, the word Genius is not sufficient to honour his Brilliance, or to do him justice.
I remember reading one of his war books going to school on the train. I was on my own, and couldn't stop giggling hysterically. People were throwing me sideways glances, I think they thought I was mad. Reading them all again, 50 years later - and still laughing like a hyena. I loved this man ❤
so - I caught my dad reading them Sunday morning, giggling like mad, then, remember pissing off my wife as I used to read them on the bog - what are you doing? she would shout out, ha ha
I was exactly the same I read Rommel gunner who and Hitler my part in his downfall,in my teens in the early 80s and pissing myself laughing at the humour!
No one else could have gotten away with it like Spike Milligan, a true comedy legend.
R.I.P Spike Milligan you left us with comedy that will keep us laughing forever.
Fortunately, Charles loved the Goons (even made reference to Harry Secombe in his speech when was formally invested as Prince of Wales, since Harry was Welsh). Spike sent a telegram the next day the following question: "I suppose a knighthood is out of the question?" (Charles supposedly offered as a reply "Keep groveling") ... Spike later got his KBE.
Just listened again all his audiobooks..Wow what a man...RIP Spike, no one can compare...
Spike got me in trouble, was 7 or so and loved his kids books and he had a new one out and was signing them at the bookstore in town so Mum took me out of school to go meet him. It was wonderful and very nice to me as I was very shy.
School was very upset with me for missing half the afternoon, but it was worth it and I still have those signed books (now in ziplock bags)
Zero shits given. What a legend :)
The man, the myth, the legend - Spike Milligan. The funniest bit of all about that comment is that Spike and the Prince of Wales were very close friends for many years. Often imitated, but never, ever duplicated. 2:40 LOL
I've always loved Spike, me my brother and my late Dad always watched him. Never failed to make us laugh. I still think the Pakistani Dalek sketch is pure magic. Might not be PC today, But I always crease up 😂
Yes brilliant
I have watched this a lot. It is a pity we do not have more Spike Milligans about today. Genius is said a lot now but looking back to Spike it is the only word that is fitting. Genius...............................
I once had the good fortune to see Spike live on stage in London in the 1980's. During the performance Spike remarked that he had gone to stay in a country house hotel in England and on the wall in one of the bedrooms was one of the historical blue plaques stating that so and so had been born Here. He said, I wondered how that was possible ? and he gave a demonstration as to where on the wall the plaque was. He then concluded, giggling in his unique way.........His mum must have bent over and fired him out !! 🤗
Jesus LOVES you Spike.......but I'm his favourite 😊!
One of comedy's classic moments, I love the way Spike enjoys his own jokes and isn't shy in showing it, his shoulders shaking make it even funnier
A true comedy genius. Whether on stage, TV or reading his books. He is from an age when comics were truly funny. To the point of making your belly hurt. And also to have the balls to say what he thought. Brilliant! RIP Spike! 👏
I remember actually watching this. He doesn't hold back does he!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
Fucking legend!!
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan 16 April 1918. Ahmednagar, British India. Yes, he created The Goon Show. But he also wrote a few books and poetry. Including, a book about his tenure in WWII. Like so many comical genius' , he suffered from bi-polar disorder. But lived to the ripe old age of 83.{27-2-02}
This was live as well wasn’t it
Brilliant
What a legend. Growing up in the 1970’s I loved to watch him on TV and read his books which were hysterical.
See that people? A GENUINE standing ovation! :-)
factnotfictionpeople did he get through to the semi finals of X factor? That's what it takes these days
"WOT! No laugh track?!?!?!"
Classic stuff ;)
factnotfictionpeople a thing of the past
factnotfictionpeople fackinh legend
Still crying with laughter at this in nov 2019❤️spike was a one off and a true comic genius🙏🔥❤️
I'm re-reading his war memoirs now (3rd tie). They are still hilarious, serious, sad and touching all at the same time. His friendship with Edgington was a thick vein through his novels, a beautiful relationship. He never missed his annual Battery D war reunions. A great, great man.
Stuart Lloyd-Jones lovely bit of info ty mate I haven’t had the pleasure of reading those but I will now always looking for the next great read👊🏼👍🏼
Che Chesterman snr you won’t regret it.
My mother gave me a book of his poems on my 9th birthday (I'm 60 now) and I still remember every one to this day. And still have the book...
I have the feeling our now King, will still manage a 'private' smile at Mr Milligans brilliant sense of humour!